What started as simple Post-It Notes on a hospital window turned into something much bigger — a mystery friendship that one 5-year-old battling cancer said helped him get through his treatments. "We'd say, 'Who do you think is over there?'" said Liz Mixdorf, Meyer's mother.Meyer is fighting a brain tumor, spending more than six weeks at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. His family started making Post-It Notes into art on his window. Then one day, they appeared on a window at a different hospital across the street."Your mystery friends changed the window again," Mixdorf said.On the other side is Truman Medical Center/University Health."Just doing something fun," said Johnna Schindbeck, a Truman Medical Center/University Health employee.Staff noticed the work, so they started returning the favor."I know there are children over there, and I don't know what they're going through, and if I can make them smile a little bit, that's all that mattered," said Cheryl Grey, a Truman Medical Center/University Health employee.With Meyer on the eighth floor at Children's Mercy Hospital and the nursing staff on the eighth floor at Truman Medical Center, it became a frequent Post-It Note art show."Every morning, he would hop out of bed as soon as someone switch and he knew," Mixdorf said.For weeks the two sides exchanged pictures and messages."Other patients on the floor enjoyed them as well," Mixdorf said.The artwork made one boy smile through a situation where it can be hard to find one."We'd love to say that he is cancer-free and I hope I can be able to say that soon," Mixdorf said.Meyer's family checked out of Children's Mercy and got to meet the TMC staff that matched them Post-It for Post-It. Meyer left a final note, "C U later. Thanks."Meyer had his final scans Tuesday morning at Children's Mercy. The family is hoping to get those back soon. They are now heading back home to Arkansas.

Chris Huff is a retired nurse, mother of four, grandmother and quilter who is going through her fabric fast. But, she isn’t cutting quilt squares. Instead, she’s busy making masks for kids at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. "I’ve used up all the Chiefs fabric," she said. "That’s long gone. But, I got this baseball fabric now.” Huff is one of many who answered the call a year ago, when all patients began being required to wear masks. However, kids’ masks were hard to find. In spring of 2020, any mask was hard to find. Gregg Rosenboom is the In-Kind Gifts Coordinator at Children’s Mercy. He said volunteers filled the need immediately and continue to today. "For a lot of these kids it's scary coming to the hospital or they don't necessarily understand why they have to wear it," he said. "But when you have a princess or superhero mask it's a lot easier to keep that on and want to wear it around the hospital."The need for masks continues. And volunteers like Huff say they’ll keep making them as long as it does. "I told Gregg that I will keep making masks until they tell me to stop!" Huff said.